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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

No contradiction between OA and quality

Karin Weishaupt, Freier Zugang und Qualität – kein Widerspruch!  Etablierte Strukturen des Wissenschaftssystems behindern die Durchsetzung von Open Access, IAT, April 2009. (Thanks to the Informationsplattform Open Access.)

In German without an English-language abstract.  The thesis is that there is no contradiction between OA and quality, and that the conventional metrics of quality, such as impact factors, are deeply misleading. 

Because the article is a PDF, I can't link to a machine translation.  But you can read today's (HTML) press release on the article in German or Google's English.

PS:  For my own arguments for the same thesis, see especially:

Also see our past post on Weishaupt's work on OA.